So as I mentioned in an earlier post, I took a video class in October. Mostly this was for my own family but then realized how much I actually enjoyed the class so thought I would try it out in a “client” setting. I put the video together for the client and then I got scared to share it. I am new at this skill so could easily go back and critique my skills…in a number of areas…but it is tough to improve without practice:). Thought I would finally be brave and share it as I would like to do this more and think it is an amazing keepsake for families. Would love to know if there is any interest in working with me this year on this project…I have not worked out all of the details but do know that there will be introductory prices. Send me a note if you are interested.

I have been so terrible at blogging this year but I had to go back and share this session from early November. I traveled to AZ to take underwater images of this swimmer as a birthday gift from her parents. I could not be more excited about this session as it is the daughter of a good friend (and my daughter and I got to enjoy a fantastic visit with them for a few days) but also capturing someone with the same childhood sport that I had, was super fun!:). I was on the swim team as a child so love that we could get some cool images for her…apparently there are not a lot of “swim photographers” out there:). I am super excited about the art piece that is going along with this session and will share when it is complete:).

It is that time of year when I get really behind and this year seems to be even worse as I have taken a couple of extra things on…right in the middle of busy season. One of them has been a DSLR video class that I took in October. When I read about it, I saw self-paced and online, which I interpreted as something I could purchase and check out a few things that I wanted for an upcoming project and then really look at in Dec/Jan. Well that was not the case, there were deadlines…which was really good in the end as it did keep me moving through the course. Anyway I had an absolute blast doing this class and see this being a great way to document my family and hopefully can put together something for other families once I have had a couple more trial runs to determine the process that works best for me. I thought that I would share my final project here documenting what our October looked like.

Every year for last 7 years I have been able to capture this family together (in 13 sessions…I think:). I cannot describe in words how amazing their relationships are but am so very thankful that I can put into images each year their love for each other. And this year’s favourite image might be the one where the girls are protesting their dad’s singing…the same thing happens in my house! I might have overshot the session a bit and pulled a little recap of what has been going on this year for them…girls as best friends, blistered hands, and many other tricks that they wanted to show me.